People who "take illicit drugs on the weekend" have been told to take responsibility in the wake of Olivia Pratt-Korbel's murder.
Senior Merseyside Police officers said "if there wasn't the demand, there wouldn't be the supply" amid concerns about the control organised crime groups (OCGs) have on communities. Deputy Chief Constable Chris Green told the ECHO how OCGs start controlling communities with "a criminal commodity" which is usually class A drugs.
Nine-year-old Olivia was shot dead by drug dealer Thomas Cashman in her home on Kingsheath Avenue, Dovecot in August last year. Cashman had been chasing convicted criminal Joseph Nee when a bullet indiscriminately fired went through Olivia's front door, hit her mum Cheryl Korbel in the wrist before hitting the schoolgirl.
